Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 2
These three Indians had come on a long trail from their country, and it was a new trail, for they had made it themselves.
Who acts: three Indians, country, Indians · What happens: come, be, make · To what, where: long trail, new trail, country
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three Indians, country, Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 Indians | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Indians | nummod |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 trail | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trail | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trail | amod |
| 9 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 country | nmod:poss |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trail | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trail | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trail | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 trail | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 trail | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 trail | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 trail | amod |
| 19 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 made | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 come | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | this three Indians | a long trail from Indians's country | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trail=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | country | a new trail | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | Indians = indian | country | Indians = indian obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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